As night fell, a rainstorm suddenly arrived.
The battle was just as Li Luoda had said before. Facing the heavy rain hitting their faces, the musketeers could not even open their eyes. Although David Petar did not hesitate to expose his position and shouted loudly for the musketeers to be alert, he, who had just become the captain, could only stabilize his own line.
The attention of the musketeers in other directions was inevitably distracted. The friction between the plate armor and underwear soaked by the rain made them groan. The long boots filled with rain and the slippery ground made them feel like wrestling every step they took.
Li Luoda keenly discovered the weak point in the defense line and decisively attacked from the intersection of the two defense lines in the southeast. He rushed forward alone and rushed into the musketeers with bullets. He easily knocked down dozens of musketeers with one punch, but he was very measured and only knocked them unconscious without killing them.
David Petal heard fierce gunfire from the southeast and thought that the main attack point of the guardian gods was there. He shouted at the top of his lungs but his voice could not penetrate the increasingly powerful rainstorm. He could only leave half of his men to garrison and rush over with the other half.
Seeing that he had triggered the mobilization of the musketeers, Li Luoda kicked over the oil lamp hanging in the tent and set the southeast musketeer tent on fire.
The flames shot up into the sky like a beacon in the dark night.
The other guardian gods immediately understood that this was the signal for a collective attack. They crouched down and rushed forward quickly and silently as if they were stepping on meat pads. Together with Li Luoda, they captured David Petal, who came to support them, alive.
"Your captain has been captured alive, surrender, musketeers!"
"Your captain has been captured alive, surrender, musketeers!"
""Your captain has been captured alive, surrender, musketeers!"
More than 20 guardian gods shouted, and their voices were as earth-shaking as thunder in the sky.
Hearing that the newly elected captain was captured, the other musketeers had different thoughts.
Some wanted to take the opportunity to show their bravery and incite their companions to continue fighting, some lost their fighting spirit and sat on the slippery mud in a daze with their muskets, and some...
If people's hearts are not united, they will be scattered.
Li Luoda took the guardian gods to deal with the unconvinced troublemakers, and the other musketeers simply surrendered.
After all, they would eat from the same pot in the future, and everyone would work for the same master.
There was no need to fight to the death when the situation was hopeless.
The attack and defense of the stable, which lasted less than 2 hours, ended just like that. The musketeers were completely defeated and the guardian gods won easily. The total number of injured people on both sides was only 14, of which 4 were not Be careful of the guardian gods who were injured by stray bullets, and the other 10 musketeers who wanted to take the opportunity to stand out were severely beaten.
After this battle, Li Luoda and other guardian gods successfully gained a foothold. The musketeers were convinced of their close combat strength, and they also realized that muskets were not invincible in all battles. They were no longer opposed to learning close combat skills from the guardian gods.
The power under the command of Lin Qiming, the owner of the manor, was initially formed. With enough loyal and powerful subordinates, many things could be done freely.
In the following time, on the one hand, he strengthened the interest connection with the manor owners with good relations such as the Howlett family to form an alliance to advance and retreat together, and on the other hand, he took out several secret medicines that had been kept secret before and sold them to Ghana’s big tyrants and senior officials at high prices, making a huge amount of money from these big men who were addicted to pleasure.
He became rich and had one foot in the social circle of the upper class, weaving an increasingly powerful network of personal connections.
After a series of combined punches of making friends with distant people, attacking nearby people, and forming alliances, the agriculture and animal husbandry in Alberta Province basically fell into the hands of the alliance led by Lin Qiming. The farm area of Lin's Manor jumped to more than 500,000 acres, becoming one of the giants that can influence the prices in Ghana's large agriculture and animal husbandry market.
Those manor owners who were unwilling to join the alliance would always encounter unexpected disasters on dark and windy nights.
Either the whole family died in a sudden fire, or they were wiped out by rampant robbers.
Anyway, that's what the sheriffs who went to the scene to investigate the case said.
Others didn't know whether they believed it or not, but the senior officials who received the gifts believed it.
After ten years of strong growth, the name Lin Qiming went from being unknown to being famous, and he almost became a household name in Alberta.
The taboo that the plantation owners in Alberta Province are terrified of.
Ghana has not changed much overall in the past ten years. The biggest change is that the giant agricultural and pastoral alliance in Alberta Province has become increasingly powerful, and the political system has changed since 1848 to implement the"dual management system", from a British Governor-General in charge of Ghana to two governors, a British-Ghanaian governor and a French-Ghanaian governor, who take turns in power, with the capital rotated between Quebec and Toronto.
This year, the British-Ghanaian governor is in power.
His ancestors are the hereditary marquis family of the British Empire.
He is accustomed to the social atmosphere of aristocracy supremacy and strict hierarchy.
He is very dissatisfied with the plantation owners who dare to argue with business, taxation, and customs in this vast colony.
He constantly issues administrative orders to suppress the plantation owners, trying to make the authority of the new government as supreme as that of medieval lords.
For this reason, Lin Qiming organized the alliance to send invitations to the new chief minister, hoping that this descendant of the nobles who thought highly of themselves could sit down and have a good talk. Unfortunately, all the invitations were thrown into the trash basket, and the servants who were sent to deliver the invitations were beaten and bleeding, and returned to report dying.
Perhaps because he felt that the alliance was not weak, the British-Ghanaian chief minister then mobilized the capital guard to enter the mansion and placed himself under the protection of thousands of elite soldiers.
With more than 2,000 well-trained musketeers hidden in the Lin's manor, it is not impossible to rush into the chief minister's mansion on a dark and windy night to kill the new chief minister, but the impact would be too bad, and it might attract the anger of all the senior officials of the Ghanaian chief minister, and no one in the alliance would support it, so this plan was shelved.
The alliance's strategy now is soft resistance. If you, the governor, issue a decree to increase agricultural special taxes, I will go to court to appeal that the decree violates the British Constitution, and I will also mobilize my connections to submit a letter of protest to the British Parliament. The main strategy is to use time-consuming tactics to drag out the term of the ambitious British-Ghana governor in the extreme tug-of-war.
As the leader of the agricultural and animal husbandry giant alliance in Alberta Province, the Lin Manor has become the biggest stumbling block in the eyes of the new governor. The two sides continue to stalemate, and the Ghana governor is like a strange calm before the storm.
It was this setback that made Lin Qiming understand that power is truth. No matter how much wealth he has and how strong the forces under his command are, as long as he cannot rebel and establish his own country, he can only use it as a weapon to protect himself. When he encounters a person like the new governor who is not soft or hard and holds power, he can only abide by the rules and fight within the rules.
After opening up the mind, new opportunities appeared before our eyes.
Compared with the current solidified political class in Ghana, the United States, which has been established for less than a hundred years, has been turbulent in recent years.
The rise of abolitionist ideas has brought about unprecedented changes in the political landscape.
The Free Soil Party, which opposes slavery, has emerged within the Democratic Party and the Whig Party.
Its slogan and purpose is to establish free states in the West and abolish slavery.
Just this year, in 1850 AD, after many disputes between the two sides, supporters of traditional slavery overwhelmed supporters of abolitionism, and Congress passed a severe Fugitive Slave Act.
The passage of this bill further intensified the contradictions between the two sides. A bigger storm is brewing in the vast land of United States, and there are also extremely tempting huge opportunities.
"It's time to change the development ideas and priorities. I must have legitimate power in the open!"
Lin Qiming's eyes were fixed on Meilijian, and he decided to wait for the opportunity of the Civil War to take action.
In the following time, the manor owners in Alberta Province found that the alliance that made them fear and yearn for had died down and was no longer as aggressive as before. The rotated managers were also surprised to find that their administrative orders on agriculture and animal husbandry were unimpeded and no longer had the previous constraints.
However, under the Lin's manor, which they could not see, the production lines of guns and artillery purchased from various countries at high prices were being assembled. Top military technology experts were hired at high salaries to come to the secret military factory to study more advanced weapons according to the requirements of the manor owner.
Lin Qiming's life on the surface was not turbulent. The strong enough military background and huge network of personal connections protected the members of the alliance. In addition to regularly coming forward to maintain the relationship with high-ranking officials and allies, he also regularly reviewed the accounts of the manor.
The rest of his time was either spent traveling with Tiffany and Lin Xianyin, or spent on [Horizontal Refining Golden Body] and [Heavenly Principle Divine Fist].���After the fusion of the terms copied from Li Luoda, the strength of these two abilities is the same as his, but it is not the limit of these two abilities. This is different from the terms copied and fused from other people. It is not from special genes or physiques, and can continue to grow with one's own practice.
【[Horizontal Refining Golden Body] is a special practice method that combines the Golden Bell Cover, Iron Cloth Shirt, Pai Da Gong, Iron Head Gong, Iron Crotch Gong, Iron Palm Gong, Iron Leg Gong, Iron Arm Gong, Vajra Finger, Vajra Palm, Vajra Leg and other skills. The stronger the body and spirit, the more amazing the defense after training.
Lin Qiming also had a martial arts dream before crossing over. He was naturally very interested in this set of skills with unlimited potential. He practiced it every day when he had time. He paid special attention to the various piles of unique effects. He wanted to build a most solid foundation to see if he could practice the skills to the highest level of breaking the void and seeing the gods in the novels he had read.
If the skills combined in [Horizontal Refining Golden Body] still have the shadow of various traditional martial arts before crossing over, then [Heavenly Principle Divine Fist] is completely out of the scope of martial arts and is more like a fantasy skill similar to a divine fight.
To practice [Heavenly Principle Divine Fist], one must first determine the Heavenly Principle that one will follow for the rest of one's life, and then keep it in mind to give birth to the corresponding deity.
After that, every time one practices the Heavenly Principle that one follows, the deity will be further strengthened.
The two complement each other and the progress of practice will become faster and faster.
When the deity and the primordial spirit are combined into one, one will reach the state of great perfection.
For example, the Heavenly Principle that Li Luoda follows is to expel the Tartars and revive Daxia. The deity he gave birth to is a tall Tibetan man with a blurred face holding a knife in one hand and a broken bowl in the other. His real name is Zhu Yuanzhang, and his Dharma name is Kai Tian Xing Dao Zhao Ji Li Ji Ji Da Sheng Zhi Shen Ren Wen Yi Wu Jun De Cheng Gong Gao Huangdi.
Lin Qiming chose"Only I Respect the Only One Who Obeys Will Prosper and Those Who Rebellion Will Perish". He has not yet given birth to a deity. Perhaps it is related to his low-key behavior now. After all, without following the Heavenly Principle, the progress of practice is naturally slow.
"Brother, you are still in the secret room. It's time to eat, come out quickly!"
Lin Xianyin, with her hair in a bun, gently knocked on the door of the underground secret room in the villa.
She is now nearly 30 years old, but her skin is still fair and smooth, her beautiful willow-leaf eyebrows are slightly wrinkled, and her white teeth are biting her red lips. She is at the most beautiful age for a woman.
Lin Qiming slowly finished his work and let out a long breath.
The exhaled air condensed into a white air arrow, which hit the wall not far away and blew a deep pit as big as a bowl. It can be seen that his skills are becoming more and more profound and he has reached a high level where his breath is as fast as an arrow.
"Xiaoxian'er, I'm coming right now. You and Tiffany can eat first!"
Before, I practiced the horizontal alchemy body with various equipment to assist in the beating. It was inevitable that some dust fell on my body. I always felt uncomfortable if I didn't wash up.
After Lin Qiming finished talking through the door, he went into the bathroom in the secret room to wash up.
He now has neat short hair, clear muscle contours, strong lines, broad shoulders and back, wasp waist and long legs. He walks with a vigorous and agile gait.
His handsome face is still the same, as if 10 years have passed without leaving a trace. He deliberately left a thick stubble on his chin to hide the truth of his youthfulness.
"Hey, Tiffany and I have long lifespans, but Xiaoxianer is just an ordinary person."
"The difference is not obvious now, but the difference will be obvious as she gets older. By then, Xiao Xianyin may not be as carefree as she is now. I don't know if she can accept Tiffana's idea and accept her good sister's first embrace to become a vampire."
Lin Qiming washed his strong body while narrowing his eyes and frowning in worry.
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